Turi Gábor – (writer, Jazz critic)

BIOGRAPHY:

Turi Gábor

Hungarian jazz critic, jpurnalist, politician, diplomat.

born 1951

He started writing on jazz in the mid 1970s, having published hundreds of articles in Hungarian and foreign papers, periodicals. He is jazz columnist for Magyar Nemzet and Gramofon. He has also published two books on jazz titled I Say: Jazz (Editio Musica, 1983) and Time for Jazz (Osiris, 1999). As a lifetime achievement, he was awarded the András Pernye Prize in 2013 by the Hungarian Jazz Federation. His writings can be downloaded from his web site: turigabor.hu.